se le renvoyèrent l'une à l'autre. Se is not only used

raflexively, but also rcciprocally. With niany verbs it might not be quite clear whether se is used rcficxively — thcmsclvcs, or rccip7'0cally — oiie anothcr, or, cach othcr ; as — Ils (elles) se flattent — They flatter thcmsclves, or, they flatter onc anothcr ; hence we generally add run(e) l'autre, or, if more than two are meant, les uns (unes) les autres. Hère it is l'une à l'autre, to each othcr, literally — the onc to the othcr ; the préposition governing l'un l'autre being ahvays placed between tlie two ternis : — Ils médisent l'un de l'autre — They speak ill of each otlier.

11. ne pouvant ; 'pas' may be left ont after pouvoir, savoir,

oser, cesser, bouger n'avoir garde ; as — ' Ne savoir que faire,' Not to knoiv ichat to do.

11-12. un homme qui eût. Great attention mnst be paid to the use of the subjuuctive mood in French. Hère the verb (eût) is in the subjunctive (imperfect), because it dépends on a preceding négative clause (ne pouvant). The indicative mood of a verb is used to state (indicate) facts ; the subjunctive mood, on the contrary, is used in dépendent clauses, when the principal clause clearly shows tliat what foUows is 7iot a matter offact, but something whicli is a. ma,tter of fecling, oï doubt, or of imcertainty, oî ivishing, or, as hère, of unwillingncss. Compare, for instance, —

Je ne désire pas un élève qui soit jiaresseux ;

J'ai un élève qui est paresseux.

la barbe bleue, not the blue beard ; translate according to note to 1. 4.

13. c'est qu'il ... ; ce coming immediately after another clause

beginning with ce qui is generally left out in English.

14. ne savait ; ' pas ' after ' savoir ' may be left out ; see 1. 11.

ce que ces femmes étaient devenues, word for word — What thosc wivcs werc bccome, which is the French way of putting — What had bccome of those wivcs ; tliat is, the word used in English as the complément of to bccome, is used in French as the subject of devenir ; thus, instead of — What bas become of him f say in French — What is hc becoiue ? — Qu'est-il devenu ?

2. 1. pour followed by a verb in the infinitive mood generally

answers to the English in order to, or siniply to.

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2. 4. on demeura ; ' on ' may he rcndcred in Enf^lisli in many ways — (1) liy oiie ; (2) by ])iittinf,' tlio verlj in the pansivc voice, and turning the Frcnch obj'i'ct into the sultject in Englisli — 'On deniaude un juune homme,' A youug man is wantcd ; or (3), as hère, by thcy (or people).

huit jours (word for word — cight days) is the général way of expressing the space of a week ; as for instance — from Wedncsday io Wcdncsday, both the first and the last day being counted ; thus also — quinze jours, a fortnight {— fourteen uights).

ce n'étaient que ; asne . . . que mvans 07ihj or vnfJting hiit, tlie alniost literal rendering would hc — thèse (i.c. tliose ciglit days) were nothing but ... ; freely rendered — The wholc

iimc was spcnt in . . .

5. parties de chasse, hunting 2)arty ; see Preliminary (i), I. 1.

7. se faire des malices les uns aux autres, to play (literally

makc) one another tricks ; the construction is exactly the same as in p. 1, 1. 10 ; malice is hère taken in tlie harmless sensé of trick, jokc.